Dateline goes back 40 years to investigate a 1982 murder that shook a peaceful suburban neighborhood in Brighton, New York.

On Friday's "Dateline," a new team of detectives revisits the nearly 40-year-old cold case of Cathy Krauseneck, a wife and ...

Dateline looks at one of the state's most unsettling cold cases in the history of upstate New York in "The Bad Man", the 1982 ...

Cathy Krauseneck was found dead in bed in Brighton, New York, with an ax still lodged in her head when first responders ...

Cathy Krauseneck was found dead with an ax in her head at her Brighton home on February 19, 1982. Decades after the murder, her husband, James Krauseneck, was arrested for second-degree murder and ...

Cathy Behe intends to keep tabs on the trial of Jim Krauseneck as best she can. She recalls seeing the family returning to Michigan in the fall of 1981 at a neighborhood playground.

That was before someone took an ax and, with a single strike to the head, killed Cathy Krauseneck as she slept on the morning of Feb. 19, 1982, with 3½-year-old Sara in the home.

Krauseneck has been married three times since Cathy's death — he and his current wife have been together since 1999 — but his previous spouses did not provide investigators with a marital ...

Gargan said after the hearing that Laraby's statement about the ax killing was rife with errors: Laraby said Cathy Krauseneck was out of the bed when he allegedly struck her with the ax, and she ...

When Jim Krauseneck’s first wife Cathy was murdered with an ax, investigators immediately suspected him. But with little evidence, the investigation went cold — until decades later. Feb 27, 2023 ...